themoneyteam2 wrote:I read this move as saying Muscala + buyout wing > Bey + buyout big.
I don't know if I'd read that deeply into it.
-You look at the moves Brad has made. The guys he's brought on. Guys like Al, Brogdon, Schroder, J-Rich, White, Muscala. These guys are all 27 years or older. Brad likes bringing on proven vets who are 27 or older. Bey is only 23.
-Still, to this moment, I have not seen any articles, any rumors, nothing that indicates were were interested in Bey
-Pretty much all of the articles, rumors, etc. that I have seen indicates the priority was adding a big over adding a wing. So, rather than the equation in your post, I think it's simply a matter of going for a big over a wing here. The articles said Brad was gonna use the TPE. You use the TPE because a) You have more control over the player you get, rather than not being able to control what players get bought out, can't control whether the player wants to sign here, etc. Plus, you can typically get a better player via trade, compared to the buyout market where it's the scraps that all teams throw the players they don't want. That's why the rumors were that we wanted a big via trade - either Olynyk, Poeltl or Muscala. We made an offer for Poeltl, the Spurs took a slightly better offer from the raptors. Brad didn't want to give up a 1st rounder for a guy who might just be a rental - so Brad was able to get a guy who could end up being just as good of a fit here at a fraction of the cost. Not sure it had anything to do with Bey.
-It may have been a slight factor that Brad looked at the potential buyout options and seen that there looks like more quality and quantity of wings who could get bought out (Ross, Green, Barton, Burks, Holiday, etc.) than bigs (Noel, Dedmon, Ibaka, Saric). The wing options look better to me, and clearly Brad thinks that a big is a bigger (pun intended) need. Plus, Brad and his staff obviously have more insider knowledge than we do, to know which of these guys are actually likely to get bought out, which of them are more likely to choose Boston, etc.
-If we did go for a wing, no guarantee it would have been Bey. Who knows, maybe they were interested in Mcdaniels? But chances are, Brad wasn't interested in either of them because they're so young. Plus, clearly Brad prefers to bring on guys who are ball movers and not ball stoppers. Someone already posted the stat about how Muscala is #1 in the NBA in shortest amount of time holding the ball per touch. Well, it seems like Bey is the opposite of that:
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Muscala is a more efficient shooter and a better defender than Bey, too.
Plus, Al played with Muscale in OKC and in ATL. I'm sure Brad talked to Al about this move too.
-Lastly, Detroit got Wiseman in the Bey deal. So who knows, maybe they wanted to keep Bey and were only going to trade him if they either got a 1st round pick in return or a player who was recently a top 5 pick. A contender isn't gonna want Wiseman. But DET is knee deep in a big rebuild. So why not take a chance on a guy who was the #2 pick in the draft? maybe they figure that he's been a disappointment because of injuries and not enough playing time on a team that just won a title. So they figure if they give Wiseman some minutes (saw a tweet that said they plan on moving Wiseman into the starting lineup) then he could flourish. We don't have anyone like that we could trade and 5 picks is a whole lot more than the 2 2nd rounders + Justin Jackson package that we gave up for Muscala.
